When you’re comparing mobile broadband packages you’ll find the letters HSPA cropping up in all sorts of specification documents.
HSPA is a new protocol for mobile telephone data transmission. It stands for High-Speed Packet Access and is also sometimes known as 3.5G. If your phone and mobile package provides you with HSPA then you will be able to download content and browse on the internet on your mobile or laptop as fast as you would with an ADSL broadband line at home.
More phones than ever now provide HSPA. However, unfortunately, if the service you’ve signed up to doesn’t make use of 3G protocol you won’t see any benefit.
There are a number of different enhancements on the HSPA route, that although look very similar, provide tweaked services. If you’re looking through your laptops’ or mobile phones’ specification details keep an eye out for the following:
HSDPA – High Speed Downlink Packet Access
With this in tow you will be able to download larger files to your device such as email attachments or whole web pages.
HSUPA – High Speed Uplink Packet Access
High Speed Uplink Packet Access upload speeds peak at around 5.7Mb/s compared to the 384kb/s achieved by HSDPA.
HSPA Evolved – HSPA+
Not available at the moment, HSPA Evolved will be available in late 2008 or early 2009 and will offer data download speeds of up to 42Mb/s and uploads of 11Mb/s.
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